Erica Goodman

David Swan

Fujiko Imajishi

David Burnham

Steve Sweeney

David Quinney

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ELLIOTT CARTER

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1

Mosaic

11:56

Erica Goodman harp

Robert Aitken

2

Scrivo in vento

5:32

Robert Aitken flute

3

Gra

4:18

Max Christie clarinet

4

Enchanted Preludes

6:00

Robert Aitken flute

David Hetherington cello

5

Steep Steps

2:40

Virgil Blackwell bass clarinet

6

Figment No. 1

6:16

David Hetherington cello

7

4 Lauds

5:51

Fujiko Imajishi violin

8

Figment No. 2, "Remembering Mr. Ives"

3:58

David Hetherington cello

9

4 Lauds

3:14

Fujiko Imajishi violin

10

Dialogues

14:14

David Swan piano

Robert Aitken

100th Anniversary Release

Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, first composer to receive the United States National Medal of Arts, one of the few composers ever awarded Germany’s Ernst Von Siemens Music Prize, and in 1988 made Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France, Elliott Carter is internationally recognized as one of the leading American voices of the classical music tradition. He recently received the Prince Pierre Foundation Music Award, bestowed by the Principality of Monaco, and was one of a handful of living composers elected to the Classical Music Hall of Fame.

11 December, 2008, will mark Carter’s hundredth birthday with celebration plans in place worldwide. A native of New York City, Carter has been compared as an artist to another New Yorker, Henry James, with whom he is seen to share multifaceted richness of vision and fastidiousness of craft based on intimate familiarity with Western (and in Carter’s case, non-Western) artistic traditions. Like Henry James, Carter and his work reflect the impress of a lasting and deeply felt relationship with Europe, a relationship dating from adolescent travels with his father, nourished by study of the fruits of European artistic and intellectual culture, and cemented by a threeyear course of musical training in Paris with Nadia Boulanger during the period 1932–1935. Enriched through wide acquaintance with European artists, including many, such as Bartók and Stravinsky, who came to America during World War II, Carter has seen his work as widely appreciated and as actively encouraged overseas as in his own country. In 1987 the Paul Sacher Foundation moved to acquire all Carter’s musical manuscripts, to be permanently maintained in a public archive in Basel alongside similarly comprehensive deposits of the manuscripts of Stravinsky, Boulez, Bartók, Hindemith, Strauss and other universally acknowledged twentieth-century masters.